Mission scientists expect more imagery from this set over the next several days, showing even more terrain at this highest resolution.

After being pieced together, the 18 primary mirror segments will work together as one large 6.5-metre mirror. The full installation is expe...

MAVEN is the first mission devoted to understanding how the sun might have influenced atmospheric changes on the Red Planet.

This remote Kuiper Belt object (KBO) known as 2014 MU69 was one of two identified as potential destinations and the one recommended to NASA.

Analysis of the image shows two distinct layers of haze - one about 80 kilometres above the surface and the other at 50 kilometres.

Using NASA's planet-hunting space telescope, called Kepler, a team announced today that Kepler 452b is the most Earth-like planet every dis...

A NASA spacecraft will reveal details of Pluto's surface for the first time, as it speeds by the dwarf planet after a near decade-long jour...

NASA has come a step closer to its planned mission to Europa which will try to find out if there is a water ocean beneath the surface of Ju...

The spacecraft travelled more than six and a half years before it was inserted into orbit around Mercury on March 18, 2011.

Signs of alien life will be detected by 2025, while "definitive evidence" of extra-terrestrial beings may be found within the next 20 to 30...

ET and Klingons may phone home sooner than we think. NASA scientists feel we are one generation away from discovery.

A research paper, published in the journal Nature, describes microscopic grains of rock detected by NASA's Cassini spacecraft in the Saturn...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has found strong evidence of a massive saltwater ocean under the icy crust of Jupiter's largest moon Ganymede...

NASA is planning a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa to search for signs of alien life on the icy, ocean-harbouring world.

Of more than 1,000 verified planets found, eight are less than twice Earth-size and in their stars' habitable zone, the US space agency sai...

Eight new worlds beyond our solar system, including two of the most Earth-like planets discovered so far, boost the number of Kepler's conf...

The agreement in this regard was signed by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and K Radhakrishnan, Chairman of ISRO, in Toronto.